Disneyland officially reopening April 30th

[waltography]

So I was able to purchase tickets from my travel agent early this morning. I don't have the ticket numbers yet (just a voucher), so I can't do anything for reservations just yet. However, the agent is supposed to send them to me this morning.

And, I just checked to see if they posted in my account on the website and....... their server just CRASHED. It tells you just how many people are trying to do this, this morning. This is going to be fun.

I'm still sitting on Disney's "Please Sit Tight" screen too.

How does that work? Can travel agents purchase tickets on the backend?

 

[Californian Elitist]

I hope everyone successfully gets the dates of their choice.

 

[CaptinEO]

Approximate wait time "more than an hour".

I thought opening this at 530am was overkill, guess not.

 

[CaptinEO]

This is more for fun, worst case if I can't go these next few weekends, not a big deal.

 

[wityblack]

I honestly don't think getting into the pre-queue early made a difference. All that matters is how fast it put you in the queue when they opened it.

 

[CaptinEO]

Also for those that don't know. There are different queues. One is for reservations, one is for tickets.

 

[wityblack]

Also for those that don't know. There are different queues. One is for reservations, one is for tickets.

But you can't enter the reservation queue until you buy the tickets, right?

 

[chadwpalm]

Also for those that don't know. There are different queues. One is for reservations, one is for tickets.

I have a tab for tickets and a tab for reservations open, but the screens are the same and even the queue ID is the same.

 

[CaptinEO]

One of my urls has "Tix" in it and the other has "entry-resevations" in it.

 

[chadwpalm]

One of my urls has "Tix" in it and the other has "entry-resevations" in it.

Same, but if the queue ID is the same it makes me wonder if they are the same queue or not even with the different url.

 

[DrAlice]

How does that work? Can travel agents purchase tickets on the backend?

Yep. I chose to use them because they have plan protection that lets me cancel tickets for a refund and/or cancel/change hotel dates easily. (There's a fee for that, of course, but it eased my anxiety about the whole process. lol).

I used them for our last trip that got cancelled due to the plague. It was very easy to just contact them to cancel everything and get a refund.

 

[wityblack]

If anyone's wait time dips under an hour, please let us know.

 

[ToTBellHop]

Same, but if the queue ID is the same it makes me wonder if they are the same queue or not even with the different url.

My understanding was the whole purpose behind delaying new ticket sales was to have a single queue so you can immediately book reservations after buying tickets. We will see if that is actually what happens. Disney IT leaves something to be desired.

 

[CaptinEO]

Got my 2 park hoppers :O

 

[Disney Analyst]

This person got their tickets

 

[Dapale]

Got my 2 park hoppers :O

Haha! Did your wait time even change or just let you in?

 

[CaptinEO]

Haha! Did your wait time even change or just let you in?

Third party vendor site. Saved money too! If any WDW'ers want to know just PM me, don't want lurkers to clog it up.

 

[wityblack]

So very jealous!!

 

[Stevek]

Yes. In fact, if you aren't planning to reserve any days today you really don't need to sit in the queue. Tickets won't sell out, it's just reservations that will fill up. You can get the tickets whenever. I don't believe you don't have to buy tickets and reserve days at the same time.

The only benefit I can see getting tickets today, if we decide to go later, is protecting ourselves against a price increase...though I'm optimistic Disney won't do that anytime soon.

 

[milordsloth]

still sitting at "more than an hour"..... I first opened the page at 7.